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Modest Mouse were one of the most surprising commercial success stories of the new millennium -- while their music was by turns taut and elliptical, and the lyrics sometimes cryptic and introspective, the band broke through ... Modest Mouse were one of the most surprising commercial success stories of the new millennium -- while their music was by turns taut and elliptical, and the lyrics sometimes cryptic and introspective, the band broke through to the mainstream audience with the platinum-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News, and they became genuine rock stars at a time when their musical peers remained cult figures. Modest Mouse was founded in 1993 by guitarist and vocalist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green. Brock, who had a nomadic childhood, was only 18 and living in a shed next to his mother's trailer home when Modest Mouse began working together, with the shed becoming the new band's rehearsal space and base of operations. In 1994, Modest Mouse booked time at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington to cut their first record, and Johnson released their debut 7", "Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?," on his K Records label. Modest Mouse soon began work on an album, but the project was abandoned and the material went unreleased until 2001, when it appeared on a collection called Sad Sappy Sucker.

After releasing a handful of singles, Modest Mouse went into the studio with Johnson as producer to record an EP, The Fruit That Ate Itself, but by the time it was released, the group had already moved on to another Northwest-based indie label, Up Records. 1996's This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, produced in collaboration with Steve Wold (who would find fame a few years later as grizzled blues hobo Seasick Steve), was Modest Mouse's first proper album, and received enthusiastic reviews in the independent music press. In 1997, Modest Mouse returned with The Lonesome Crowded West, which earned more positive press and was a considerable sales success by indie label standards, supported by extensive touring. As Modest Mouse's following grew, they were courted by major-label scouts, and they eventually signed with Epic Records, who released The Moon & Antarctica in 2000. A collection of demos and session outtakes, Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, was issued in 2001, and Brock released an album with his side project Ugly Casanova in 2002. In 2003, it was announced that drummer Green had left Modest Mouse; Benjamin Weikel of the Helio Sequence became the group's new percussionist (he also doubled on keyboards), and Dann Gallucci, who had been a guest guitarist on the sessions for Sad Sappy Sucker and The Lonesome Crowded West, became an official member of the band.

The new lineup recorded 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which proved to be Modest Mouse's commercial breakthrough, rising to the top of the album charts, spawning the hit singles "Float On" and "Ocean Breathes Salty," and selling over a million copies as the band began headlining arenas. By the end of 2004, Green returned to Modest Mouse, and in 2006, after Gallucci left the group, the band recruited Johnny Marr, legendary guitarist with the Smiths, to take his place for the recording of their next album. Marr not only appeared on 2007's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, he became a full member of Modest Mouse and toured with the group in support of the album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard album charts. In 2005, Brock had launched his own record label, Glacial Pace Records, saying the name reflected his own slow working habits; while Modest Mouse continued to play live shows, work on their next album progressed very gradually, and in 2009 they issued a collection of outtakes and non-LP single sides, No One's First, And You're Next, as a stopgap. A tour was launched in support, but as Marr had joined the Cribs, Jim Fairchild (who had worked with Grandaddy and All Smiles) became the group's new guitarist, and when Modest Mouse played a round of shows in 2012, the group debuted a new lineup with the addition of second percussionist Joe Plummer. While Eric Judy was still an official member of the band, for some 2012 dates he was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, who had been touring with the group as a sideman since 2004.

Mark Deming
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Tape	Songs	Comments	Author
Funeral Songs Songs that will play at mine. Come to mine and maybe I'll go to yours.(The Original Mix, not an imitation)	18	5	DanStranger51
Trying to Forget You Volume 2	29	3	taterbug1723
songs to calm you down	14	42	guyswithrecordcollections
Awe-Inspiring Alternative A playlist I made a long time ago with music I really liked at the time. Mostly popular alternative, with some rock and hip-hop. It's alrigh...	22	1	PandemiK
Good Songs Beginning With B A mixtape containing good songs that begin with the letter B.	28	3	adamus
JohnnyLurg's Favorite Songs A nice selection of my favorite songs.	173	7	JohnnyLurg
Breezy Autumn Day Songs Just a collection of stuff that I'll listen to if I'm hiking or walking, leaves falling around me. Some softer music that vaguely reminds me...	16	5	indiexchick
Music from The OC I don't even watch the OC, but I've found out that apparently they play some pretty decent music on the show :)	57	1	indiexchick
2011.	25	20	cmonpilgrim
songs for a rainy day. Here are the songs ive put together that do one of three things, usually all in one. This is a mix of songs that make you think, that make y...	18	6	wagseee
All around Indie This mixtape is a combination of all the songs I love and new songs that have made their way into my life just recently.	32	1	HC_MOS
Favorite Songs	50	0	MurdocKilz
Music that Moves Songs that choke me up. Make me stop whatever I'm doing and look off into the sky. Songs that hold an incredible meaning for me.	21	1	musicgypsy
Life Affirming Songs Songs that make me feel really good inside - positive, life affirming, some are feisty (maybe overcoming adversity), etc.	18	0	mawgojzeta
Say it :) this is how i really feel	30	1	maryjane749
Russian girls want to date you. Basically I am going to throw on whatever I feel like today being february something two thousand and leven? yeah leven.	30	1	yecal
One Lost Love Older After the fallout, the soggy tissues and the walls punched, the blanket of comfort - in the form of wistful music - wraps itself around me.	18	1	musicgypsy
I'm an extraordinary machine. Songs that make me feel better about myself, or just happy in general.	18	0	goodgollymissmolly
Smile Time For driving around on a warm day with the windows down and a smile stretching across your face.	13	1	Mellow_Harsher
Blue in the Face Me	29	0	MarcusH
Best lyrics	11	1	FullDevilSoccer
Living in Misery Volume 1 A handful of songs that have given me something to curl around, when everything else has pretty much fallen away. Contains primarily soft so...	30	0	Abalon
Sometimes I Forget Sometimes, I feel a little bit less like living, and then I'll listen to a song and I'll think, "if this person can survive through this, th...	20	1	pen.in.hand
Songs That I Love Most of these are also critically acclaimed. If you listen, you'll know why.	12	24	ftwmusic
hkjdgh,.l; a summer spent longing for winter. trees, birds and hipster triangles	17	2	snfavreau
feel.	26	0	DreamingOfRainbowButterflies
broken, lost and confused	28	0	Postmark
Summer 2011 - Space Travel Every season I burn a cd for my girlfriend full of songs on my mind that flow together in some way. This summer's theme was space travel. I ...	16	5	Austini
adam's mixtape	13	5	adamus
:3 songs that remind me of someone~	7	0	wendyswing13
indie-ish this has no theme...just songs that im into right now	15	10	guyswithrecordcollections
No. 1 I didn't really have a theme in mind when I made this. Just a mix I made for a good friend while traveling through Poland.	15	0	justinarms
deep	5	0	wendysivik
You make me alive again This is dedicated to my best friend and love...	5	0	LaurenLizH
Too Far Away My best friend is far away at the moment, these are songs that I've put on mixtapes for him in the past.	17	0	rosebot
SunOnYourFace	27	8	Injera
A long dark road	17	0	lawlessdan
Summer Melancholy Self explanatory.	11	0	otaconnachos
Nature and Artifacts Topics in Environmental Philosophy	8	1	ARoomFullofBees
Depression As Identified Through Songs, By The Awry In All Of Us Songs that tap a needle on the sickening abscess that is depression, festering deeper than sadness, anger, jealousy, envy ... yet seems to c...	6	0	markusgoneawry
senia Volume 1	10	0	seniasunshine
Monday morning & the sun is shining! What a lovely day!	19	4	PJudge
You Give Me More K	10	0	taterbug1723
MUUZICCCCC jamzzzzz and shittt	13	0	shannakett99
HAPPY SONGS! these songs are sure to make you happy...or your money back	7	11	guyswithrecordcollections
senia	30	2	seniasunshine
laneteg	18	0	laneteg
Nothing Special Volume 1 Just a mix of a few things both new and familiar to me.	27	5	BreakingTradition
Expansion Songs that gave me a head rush when I first heard them,	6	0	Cogthird
ConsciousDreamer	30	1	Injera
For Michael Chavis For my friend that passed away this last August. I shared much of who I am with him, and I will always love him.	11	0	megznbacon
Modest Mouse Uhh... Modest mouse. Cuz they're the amazing.	2	0	LoudIntroduction
Air hockey in the basement full of endless nick nacks. When the Garage scene hit in 2000 I was 11. Man those were GOOD times. Endless days at my friends house we'd play in her basement full of id...	10	1	Defanie
word good songs	30	0	fruitbreezer202
decently epic soundtrack Great music. recommend to add. or just get into great music.	15	0	wagseee
oh I just can't wait (to be king)	16	0	kimonoitec
Heartbroken and ruined, yay.	12	1	Laurenita
Massage Mix What I play when I give massages. I hate having two artists on the same playlist, but at least the Zero 7 songs have different singers. Also...	13	0	TheDarkSideoftheMoo
yep	4	5	princessturkey
Drinkytunes Music for drinking to. Not all depressing either. Just songs I've drunk to with friends in the past. There's gonna be lots of folk punk on h...	20	4	anarchomaniac
All the Tenderness We've Let Rust Away Sitting at the tipping point of a relationship.	2	0	takkle
teve you kill me	6	0	astrophic
My funeral mixtape everyone has to have their personal funeral mixtape! hopefully this will expand as time goes on...	11	3	musicgypsy
Crissy and Heather	1	0	SpiriitWolf
Bipolar Opposites Volume 1 A little something for every mood you may be in.	30	0	EverythingandNothing
golden words	7	0	bmo1409
Drowning Sometimes it sinks. You fall right in and hopelessly flail about.	11	0	ai9652
Summer/Spring 2012 Summer/Spring 2012 Playlist	30	0	Postmark
cool songs and stuff im not going to pretend this has a theme...just songs and bands ive been into lately	10	3	guyswithrecordcollections
Feb 2011	2	0	sheenamusic
TLCW	3	1	gthankss
Modest Mouse	10	0	guyswithrecordcollections
Two Songs that mean everything to me.	29	0	chunnabee
Eng114L Soundtrack Lyrics to all of the songs on "soundtrack"	6	0	dston008
For Her	2	0	lauruuu
Folky A playlist that I made for a friend.	17	0	ftwmusic
Metal Heart. A blend of melancholy folk songs and slow-tempo indie tunes.	10	1	XNeverMind
So... It's Night	10	0	MeYouSickLover
For you Pigeon For the only woman I will ever truly love. I am your fool but cannot live like a fool. I'm Sorry Lub.	16	0	Amorgin
and i laugh with them	1	0	windswept
2012. It's been an extremely rocky year for me, but I'm pretty sure I think this mixtape goes without saying. Here is the soundtrack that got me t...	19	0	cmonpilgrim
me	1	0	orinjje
Contemplating Religion and God Bearing in mind I'm actually an atheist.	17	0	manic4manics
The Trances This is full of songs that put you into that ecstatic, unexplainable feeling of a trance. (You know what I mean)	1	2	thescout16
remember the sunshine	2	0	flowerface
Spring Break 2013!	13	0	XNeverMind
I'm So Sad So Very, Very Sad	10	0	PolarNorth

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